Imagine that you and a friend are discussing your health-related fitness levels. what assessments could you and your friend use to determine your health-related fitness levels for each component and what activities could you do to improve the components of health-related fitness? < < read less

the more fit you are, the faster the recovery. your heart rate drops most sharply in the first minute after you stop exercising; it should then fall about 20 beats a minute—a drop of less than 12 beats a minute is considered abnormal. this “recovery heart rate” is measured as part of an exercise stress test.